Blondie Celebration Edition #17187

Fifty years of the Bumstead household called for something special, and this giant-size Celebration Edition by Dean Young and Jim Raymond delivers a feast of brand-new strips to mark the milestone. The vivid red cover says it all: Dagwood strides forward balancing an impossibly towering, candle-topped sandwich on a platter while Blondie, Alexander, Cookie, and a tumbling heap of Daisy's puppies parade jubilantly around him. It's a warm, chaotic snapshot of everything that has kept this strip at the heart of American comics for half a century, and at $1.95 it was an easy way to bring the whole Bumstead family home in 1980.